STATE PAPERS. TREATIES. Treaty between his Britannic Majefty and the Landgrave of Heffe E it known to those whom it may concern, that his Majesty the King of Great Britain, and his Serene Highnefs the Landgrave of Helle Darmstadt, in confideration of the strict ties which unite their interests; and having judged that, in the prefent fituation of affairs, it would contribute to the reciprocal welfare of Great Bri tain, and of the dominions of Heffe Darmfladt, to cement and ftrengthen, by a new treaty of alliance, the connexion which fubfifts between them; his Britannic Majefty, in order to regulate the object relative to this treaty, has thought proper to nominate Charles Craufurd, his envoy at the Imperial and royal armies; and his Serene Highness has nominated, on his part, for the fame purpose, the Baron Charles of Barckhaus, his privy counsellor and director of the council of war; who, being furnished with the neceffary full powers, have agreed to take for batis of the prefent treaty, the one formerly concluded between Great Bri ain and Heffe, the 5th of October, 1793, to adopt fuch parts of it as may be applicable to the prefent circumstances, or to fettle, by new articles, thofe points which it may be necellary to regulate other wife and as it is not poffible to specify each particular cafe, every thing which fhall not appear to be determined in a precife manner, either in the prefent treaty or in the former treaty, thall be fettled with equity and faith, in conformity to the fame principles which have been adopted in former inftances. Article I. There (hall be, therefore, in virtue of this treaty, between his Majefty the King of Great Britain and his Serene Highnefs the Landgrave of Heffe Darmstadt, their heirs and fuc ceffors, a strict friendship, and a fincere, firm, and conftant union, fo that the one thall confider the interests of the other as his own, and thall strive to promote them with good faith as much as poffible, and to prevent and remove all disturbance and injury. VOL. VI. b II. His II. His Majesty the King of Great Britain defiring to have in his fervice a body of troops, to be employed wherever he may think proper, excepting in the Eaft Indies, or on board the fleet; and his Serene Highnefs wishing for nothing more than to give his Majefty this fresh proof of his attachment, engages, by virtue of this article, to fet on foot three battalions of infantry, forming a body of two thousand two hundred and eighty-four men, according to the annexed fpecification; thefe troops fhall be ready to pafs in review before his Britannic Majefty's commiffioners the 14th day of July of the present year, at Darmstadt, and to begin their march the following day for the place of their destination. The general, whom his Britannic Majefty fhall appoint commander in chief in the countries where they thall ferve, thall have authority to employ them, either together or in detachments, and even to difperfe them amongst the different islands or districts of his command, in the manner which he fhall judge the most advantageous for his Majesty's fervice. It being notwithstanding well underftood that these troops fhall always remain under the immediate orders of their own chiefs. The faid corps fhall confift of men difciplined and exercised, and well armed and equipped. III. In order to defray the expenses to which the Serene Landgrave fhall be put for the equipment of the faid corps of troops, his Britannic Majefty promises to pay to his Serene Highness for each man thirty crowns banco, the crown being reckoned at fiftythree fols of Holland, or at four fhillings and nine-pence three farthings English money, of which payment thall be made immediately after the review, and according to the effective state as fhall then be verified. All the camp neceffaries, as likewife all the horfes, waggons, draft horfes, valets de bat, and waggoners, who may be neceffary for the troops, as well for tranfporting the equipages, provifions, ammunition, utenfils, fick, and other objects of every kind, as for the field-pieces, with their implements, and artillery-men, fhall be furnished by his Eritannic Majefty wherever they may be wanted. IV. Befides the levy money ftipulated in the preceding article, his Britannic Majefty fhall caufe to be paid to every officer, as alfo to every one employed, not a fighting man of equal rank, the fum of three months pay according to his rank, and upon the fame footing as his national troops, in order to facilitate the expense of his private equipment; which payment fhall be made immediately after the fignature of the prefent treaty. V. His Majefty the King of Great Britain engages himself, in like manner, to pay to the Serene Landgrave an annual fubfidy during the fix years this treaty is to continue. This fubfidy thall commence from the day of the fignature, and it fhall be paid 'at the rate of eighty thoufand crowns banco per annum. The pay ment ment of this fubfidy fhall be made regularly, without abatement, every quarter, to the agent of his Highnefs, in London. VI. Thefe troops fhall remain in the fervice and at the difpofition of his Britannic Majefty during fix years, and his Majefty fhall allow them during this term 1. Every thing that is neceffary for their fubfiftence, namely, pay, bread, forage, and, in general, all emoluments, as well ordinary as extraordinary, attached to every rank, on the fame footing that he allows them to his British troops in the different places of their destination; and for this purpose the statements of payment fhall be annexed to the prefent treaty. 2. Medicines and fuftenance for the fick and wounded, with á place, and the neceffary means of conveyance, wherein they may be treated and taken care of, precifely on the fame footing as the national British troops, by their own phyficians and fur geons. 3. The pay fhall commence from the day of the review, according to the effective state in which the faid corps fhall be delivered, which fhall be verified by a table, figned by the refpective minifters of the high contracting parties, which fhall have the fame force as if it had been inferted word for word in the present treaty. VII. As in the before mentioned table the ftrength of each company, of which four make a battalion, amounts to one hundred and fixty-three foldiers, it must be observed that in this number are comprised feven men, unarmed, intended, according to the established cuftom in the Heffian fervice, to ferve as fervants to officers; and it is agreed upon that these men fhall nevertheless pass mufter as foldiers in every respect. VIII. As it is to be feared that, notwithstanding the care made ufe of, it will not be poffible entirely to prevent defertion until the arrival of the troops at the place of embarkation, and his Serene Highness promifing to employ every means in his power that the faid corps fhall be embarked complete, it is agreed upon, that there fhall be at the faid review ten fupernumerary men per company to fupply the place of deferters on the march; fo that, in cafe, on the arrival of the corps at the port, the number of fupernumeraries shall exceed that of the deferters, the remainder may be diftributed among the battalions and added to the amount, in order to increase, in fuch cafe, the levy money, pay, &c.; and his Highness engages himself moreover to cause the faid corps to be escorted by a detachment of cavalry, in order to pick up deferters, procure quarters, &c. &c. It being well understood that the expenfes, as well of the march, as of the return of the detachment of cavalry, fhall be defrayed by his Majefty. IX. All the objects of pay and maintenance fhall be calculated according to the table of the annual review, so that the vacancies b 2 happening happening from one review to another fhall not make any altera tion in the state of payment. His Majesty shall cause these objects o be paid in advance from two to two months, either by affignments payable in favour of the Heffian commiffioner upon whateyer cheft of his Majesty may be nearest to the faid commiffion, or in ready money to his Serene Highness's agent in London. X. A fresh review fhall take place regularly every year: his Majefty fhall give three months notice of the number of recruits neceffary to complete the corps, which number fhall be fixed according to the official report of the first day of April, so that the recruits fhall be ready to be delivered to the English commiffary the first day of July, at the place of the first review, or one month after, at fuch port in Germany, or at fuch place on the frontiers of the Empire as his Majesty may chufe for their reception. The term of their delivery fhall be deemed to be that of the new review, and the total of the number of effective men remaining, according to the report of the month of April, added to that of the recruits delivered to the British commiffary, fhall be confidered as the effective state of the new period, and fhall not vary until the review of the following year. XI. There fhall be paid for each recruit armed, equipped, difciplined, and exercised, the fum of twenty crowns banco; and his Highnefs the Landgrave takes upon himself the expenses of tranfport to the place of embarkation, as well as of escort, which are to be reimbursed by his Britannic Majefty. XII. As, during the continuance of this treaty, it will neceffarily occur, that officers or foldiers, either for family reasons, on account of preferment, or for fickness, will be obliged to return home, his Majefty takes upon himfelf the expenfes of their tranfport in ande two former cafes, as far as the frontiers of the Empire, and in the latter, to their own country: his Highness promifes, in return, to replace the non-commiffioned officers and foldiers to whom he may give permiffion to return for any other reason than that of fickness, at his own expenfe, and without requiring the confideration for recruits fixed in the preceding article, referving to himself nothing but the transport from the frontiers of the Empire unto the place of their destination. Moreover, his Highnefs will never recal an officer or foldier without urgent caufe, or without having acquainted his Majefty thereof; and he will take care that the number of officers fhall be always complete. XIII. The moft Serene Landgrave being at the charge of furnishing the faid corps with arms and clothing, in confequence of the pay upon the footing of English troops, as agreed upon in these articles, his Majefty fhall caufe indemnification to be made for fuch lofs only in clothing, arms, and accoutrements as shall be occafioned by fome accident of war or of voyage; as well as for |